Synonyms for highfalutin
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Pretentious
pretentious, hoity-toity, pompous, bombastic, uppity, grandiose, supercilious, arrogant, haughty, high-sounding, rhetorical, high-flown, declamatory, stilted, inflated, upstage, la de da, grandiloquent, fustian, highfaluting, hifalutin, snobbish
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
His speech was very highfalutin.
Related words
- Word family
- highfalutinism
Example sentences
- pretentious I now have the ability to be a pretentious prick.
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- bombastic I don't usually like bombastic music.
- bombast Tom was full of bombast and pride until a dart flew straight into his forehead.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| highfalutin | rising | |
| pretentious | steady | |
| pompous | rising | |
| bombastic | rising | |
| bombast | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- uppity3
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2, stilted2, upstage2, bombast2, fustian3
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, inflated3, snobbish2
- 9 letters
- grandiose3, bombastic3, hifalutin
- 10 letters
- rhetorical4
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, declamatory
- 12 letters
- supercilious5, highfaluting
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (uppity3 = 3 syllables).